Author: George Grant MacCurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Cult of the Ax
Author: George Grant MacCurdyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Axes of Evil
Author: Todd C. ElliottPublisher: Trine Day
ISBN: 1937584739
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
The ax-man murders of 1912 in Louisiana and Texas leave a bloody trail of evidence that points to the largest, unsolved serial killing in history of the United States. It’s a tale of ritual murder, voodoo mayhem, and wholesale killings that leads the reader on a shocking train ride across two states and into the chapters of a real American horror story. The fiendish slayings of 10 sleeping families nestled in their beds is only the beginning of the terrifying account of a true crime that remains unsolved. Axes of Evil sheds light on an unwritten part of American history and uncovers the American “Jack the Ripper.”
That Old-Time Religion
Author: Jordan MaxwellPublisher: Book Tree
ISBN: 9781585091003
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book proves there is nothing new under the sun regarding many of our modern religious beliefs. This includes Christianity, and how many of its beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lunar, and solar evolution of our religious systems and contains new, long-awaited, exhaustive research on the gods and our beliefs.
Secret Cults in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
Author: Daniel A. OffiongPublisher: Fourth Dimention Publishing Company Limited
ISBN: 9789781565922
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Campus cultism pervades Nigerian higher educational institutions. It is producing a culture of fear and speculation and hindering academic pursuits. The malevolent nature of the cultists manifests itself in people being disfigured, raped and killed. This book examines the role of the education institutions, religion, the courts, examination bodies, government policies and the military, in propagating the cults. The author contends that the cultism in the universities is embedded in Nigerian society more widely; and that the universities may be considered microcosms of Nigeria at large and its problems. He proposes solutions to combat cultism, but maintains that any solutions must be accompanied by a general overhaul of the country's inefficient and kleptocratic systems.
The Cult of Pythagoras
Author: Alberto A. MartinezPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978539
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Martinez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythagoras proved the hypotenuse theorem, that Archimedes figured out how to test the purity of a gold crown while he was in a bathtub, that the Golden Ratio is in nature and ancient architecture, that the young Galois created group theory the night before the pistol duel that killed him, and more. Some stories are partly true, others are entirely false, but all show the power of invention in history. Pythagoras emerges as a symbol of the urge to conjecture and "fill in the gaps" of history. He has been credited with fundamental discoveries in mathematics and the sciences, yet there is nearly no evidence that he really contributed anything to such fields at all. This book asks: how does history change when we subtract the many small exaggerations and interpolations that writers have added for over two thousand years? The Cult of Pythagoras is also about invention in a positive sense. Most people view mathematical breakthroughs as "discoveries" rather than invention or creativity, believing that mathematics describes a realm of eternal ideas. But mathematicians have disagreed about what is possible and impossible, about what counts as a proof, and even about the results of certain operations. Was there ever invention in the history of concepts such as zero, negative numbers, imaginary numbers, quaternions, infinity, and infinitesimals? Martinez inspects a wealth of primary sources, in several languages, over a span of many centuries. By exploring disagreements and ambiguities in the history of the elements of mathematics, The Cult of Pythagoras dispels myths that obscure the actual origins of mathematical concepts. Martinez argues that an accurate history that analyzes myths reveals neglected aspects of mathematics that can encourage creativity in students and mathematicians.
The Axe & Grindstone
Author: Paul Phipps-WilliamsPublisher: Bad Press Ink Limited
ISBN: 9781916084506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Have you ever fancied running a pub? What about two pubs? And what if they were in different dimensions? Enter Mark Adams who is in serious need of a pint. Now the fabled landlord of Peacebattle, he's the only person who can stop the world from screaming for the rest of time. Don't scream. Whatever you do. Don't scream.
American Magic and Dread
Author: Mark OsteenPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812235517
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Don DeLillo once remarked to an interviewer that his intention is to use "the whole picture, the whole culture," of America. Since the publication of his first novel Americana in 1971, DeLillo has explored modern American culture through a series of acclaimed novels, including White Noise (1985; winner of the American Book Award), Libra (1988), and Underworld (1997). For Mark Osteen, the most bracing and unsettling feature of DeLillo's work is that, although his fiction may satirize cultural forms, it never does so from a privileged position outside the culture. His work brilliantly mimics the argots of the very phenomena it dissects: violent thrillers and conspiracy theories, pop music, advertising, science fiction, film, and television. As a result, DeLillo has been read both as a denouncer and as a defender of contemporary culture; in fact, Osteen argues, neither description is adequate. DeLillo's dialogue with modern institutions, such as chemical companies, the CIA, and the media, respects their power and ingenuity while criticizing their dangerous consequences. Even as DeLillo borrows from their discourses, he maintains a tenaciously opposing stance toward the sources of collective power.
The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion
Author: Martin Persson NilssonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah
Author: Henry Binkley SteinPublisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787310905
Category : Gods
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
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